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MACBETH (1997) - would-be 'authentic' Scottish remake from Cromwell Productions. "Borrows from the conventions of recent horror movies" - 'Sight And Sound', June 1997.

THE MAD DEATH (1983) - BBC Scotland mini-series; mad dogs roam countryside.

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MAD DOGS (2002)  - directed by Ahmed Jamal. Apocalyptic drama set in 2003, beginning with an outbreak of rabies and a hero who hears voices warning him of the impending end of the world. The filmmakers’ own comments on the Internet Movie Database cite Hammer and 1950s sf as two of the many influences.

THE MAGIC CHRISTIAN (1969) - brief bit with Christopher Lee as vampire.

THE MAGIC GARDEN (1908) - Robert Paul silent; under influence of alcohol, gardener sees 'giant' frog, snake, etc.

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THE MAGIC SHOP (1983)  - directed by Ian Emes. Short based on H.G.Wells story about magic store in London where customers see many strange tricks; the shop vanishes when they leave.

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THE MAGIC TOYSHOP (1986)  - dark fantasy based on an Angela Carter story, with Tom Bell as a weird puppeteer.

THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN DEADLY SINS (1971) - episodic comedy; scenes in Hell at end.

MAHLER (1974)  - Dana Gillespie as vampire-like character in another of Ken Russell’s flamboyant fantasy biopics.

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MAKING A KILLING (2002)  - with a savage serial killer on the loose, a group of con-men attempt to take advantage of the situation by concocting an insurance scam.

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MALDOROR: THE LAST FILM EVER MADE (2000)  - experimental underground version of Lautreamont’s novel, shot in twelve parts by British and German members of a filmmaking collective. “Maldoror…is stranded on Earth amongst the humanity he hates. At night he is pursued by phantoms and the memory of unspeakable crimes…he only finds horror, death and the endless battle against his arch enemy God”.

THE MALPAS MYSTERY (1960) - thriller featuring man in 'faceless' mask, based on Edgar Wallace's 'Face In The Night'.

THE MAN FROM NOWHERE (1976) - Children's Film Foundation production, mystery involving dark-coated figure who appears in old house.

THE MAN FROM YESTERDAY (1949) - directed by Oswald Mitchell, script by John Gilling. Reincarnation, spiritualistic powers.

THE MAN IN BLACK (1949) - Hammer thriller with Valentine Dyall.

THE MAN IN MOTLEY (1916) - silent feature. Man poses as ghost to force killer into confessing his crime.

THE MAN IN THE LOWER-LEFT HAND CORNER OF THE PHOTOGRAPH (1997) - short stop-motion animated film by Robert Morgan. Suicide victim is revived as half-maggot, half-woman monstrosity.

 

MAN ON THE STAIRCASE (1970)  - short directed by Roy Cannon. "Man kills intruder and tries to dispose of the body"  - British Films Catalogue

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THE MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD (2006)  - directed by Louis Melville; weird conspiracy/apocalyptic fantasy, with an end-of-the-world cult, Nazis obtaining the Holy Grail, a schoolboy character who appears and disappears and may be a ghost, etc.

THE MAN WITH TWO HEADS (1971) - Andy Milligan's version of Jekyll and Hyde, filmed in the U.K.

THE MAN WITHOUT A SOUL (1916) - religious fantasy with Milton Rosmer as man brought back from the dead.

THE MAN WITHOUT DESIRE (1923) - Ivor Novello plays a man revived from suspended animation after 300 years.

THE MANGLER (1994) - Robert Englund in adaptation of Stephen King's short story about a possessed laundry machine. U.K. production involvement? (Co-produced by Harry Alan Towers).

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THE MANSON FAMILY (2003) - Jim Van Bebber's fifteen-years-in-production take on the Manson murders eventually attained a release when backing from U.K. company Blue Underground enabled completion of the movie.

MARAT/SADE (1967) - from the Peter Weiss play.

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MARGARET’S MUSEUM (1995)  - Helena Bonham Carter stars in U.K./Canadian co-production directed by Mort Ransen. Woman keeps museum of body parts.

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MARK OF THE DEVIL (1970)  - notorious German WITCHFINDER GENERAL imitation, directed by our own Michael Armstrong. Listed in some sources as a U.K. co-production.

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MARTYR (2006) - God and Lucifer do battle over the life of a rock singer; Lucifer, in the guise of a talent agent (!), murders the singer's wife and subjects him to hours of torture. Modern re-staging of the Biblical story of Job, directed by Shaun Troke.

MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1989) - another Harry Alan Towers stab at Edgar Allan Poe. "Just about the weirdest movie idea of Poe since the 1935 RAVEN" - Donald C.Willis. British?

 

MAY I KILL U? (2012)  - Kevin Bishop as cycle cop who turns into a vicious vigilante killer after getting a bump on the head. Directed by Stuart Urban.

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MEDIAEVIL (1983)  - 4-minute experimental cut-up largely composed of images and dialogue from James Whale’s FRANKENSTEIN, interlaced with images of childbirth, a body-building Arnold Schwarzenegger, etc.  Shown at Leicester Short Film Festival 2002.

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THE MEDIUM EXPOSED (1906) - silent short produced by Robert Paul, directed by J.H. Martin. Title says it all - fake medium's hoaxing is uncovered by a group of men.

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MEDUSA (1973)  - Cameron Mitchell as a casino boss calling in the huge debts of debauched playboy George Hamilton; meanwhile, murders are being carried out by a masked killer. Greek-set crime drama written by Christopher Wicking and directed by Gordon Hessler.

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THE MEEKSVILLE GHOST (David Lister 2001)  - another from the South African-based U.K. company Peakviewing, this time a supernatural western featuring the ghost of an outlaw who enlists a relative to help clear his name.

MEET MR.LUCIFER (1953) - lesser Ealing item with an anti-television theme. Devil.

MELODY IN THE DARK (1948) - woman inherits haunted mansion.

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MERLIN: THE RETURN (1999)  - ‘dark forces of Mordred are pitted against the mythical sorcery of Merlin’ – Internet Movie Database. Starring Rik Mayall.

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MESSIAH (2001)  - two-part BBC production with Ken Stott and Edward Woodward. Victims in a series of brutal murders are discovered with silver spoons inserted into their mouths; psycho attempts to re-create the deaths of the Apostles.

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MESSIAH: THE HARROWING (2005) - Ken Stott returns, alongside Maxine Peake, to investigate another series of gruesome murders in this BBC horror thriller.

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MESSIAH: THE PROMISE (2004) - third outing for Ken Stott's troubled detective character, this time investigating grisly murders in and around a hospital. Two-part BBC t.v. drama.

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MESSIAH 2 - VENGEANCE IS MINE (2002)  - Ken Stott pursues another grisly killer in the BBC’s two-part follow-up to their 2001 t.v. hit.

METAMORPHOSIS (1987)  -  feature length t.v. version of Steven Berkoff’s Kafka stage adaptation, starring Tim Roth and Berkoff himself.

METEOR MADNESS (1981) - rockabilly band The Meteors get their own short movie, a fantasy with scenes in Hell.

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MIDDLE OF NOWHERE (2006) - U.K./Australian production. British couple travelling through the Australian outback hook up with a stranger whose intentions towards them prove sinister. Directed by Ringan Ledwidge.

MIDDLETON'S CHANGELING (1997) - "typically gory Jacobean drama of murder and illicit passion...madhouse scenes look like out-takes from Ken Russell's THE DEVILS" - 'Sight And Sound', April 1998.

MIDNIGHT AT MADAME TUSSAUD'S (1936) - thriller set in the famous wax museum.

MIDNIGHT MOVIE (1994) - directed by Renny Rye, script by Dennis Potter.

 

MILES AWAY (2014)  - 'cute' one-minute short with a twist ending, from David McGillivray's Pathetique Films. Horror?

THE MIND OF MR.SOAMES (1970) - Terence Stamp in CHARLY-like drama - man is brought out of life-long coma.

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MINDGAME (1998)  - Sophie Aldred stars in 30-minute ‘Doctor Who’-inspired video production. “One Human, one Draconian, one Sontaran trapped in a prison cell...who kidnapped them and for what sinister reason?”

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MINDGAME TRILOGY (1999)  - the Draconians and the Sontarans feature in another video production based on characters from t.v.’s ‘Doctor Who’. Three stories, one penned by Terrance Dicks, feature in this follow-up to 1998’s MINDGAME

 

MINDSCAPE (2013)  - international co-production starring Mark Strong. Experimental subjects known as 'viewers' have the psychic ability to enter people's memories. Detective works for an agency specialising in this - but is the 16-year-old girl he is investigating playing his gift against him?

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MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN (2016)  - Tim Burton-helmed dark fantasy featuring invisibility, gorgon twins, a teenager who can reanimate the dead, and Samuel L. Jackson as a shapeshifting villain controlling the eyeball-hunting Hollows, 

 

MISSING (2011)  - 2-minute short by Mark Callum, starring the director and Nathan Head. Police officers try to work out why people are going missing amid bloody crime scenes. Cannibalism?

MOBY DICK (1956) - John Huston's film version of Melville's epic novel.

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MODERN DILEMMAS (1997) - 2-minute short directed by Martin Pickles. "A black comedy of manners for the aspiring young murderer".

 

MOMENT OF CLARITY (2012) - 3-minute black and white short screened at the 2013 British Horror Film Festival. "A man wakes up after a night out not knowing where he is, who's laying next to him and what dangers lurk in the room."

THE MONSTER OF HIGHGATE PONDS (1960) - directed by Alberto Cavalcanti. Monster hatches from egg, has adventures with children.

MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (1975) - gore; monster's clawed hand turning pages of book as story unfolds; killer rabbit. Classic Arthurian comedy from the Python team.

MONTY PYTHON'S THE MEANING OF LIFE (1983) - figure of Death; gory transplant sketch; 'Mr.Creosote', immensely obese diner who vomits copiously and eventually explodes.

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MORE THAN A MESSIAH (1992)  - A BBV video production directed by Bill Baggs, starring ‘Doctor Who’ regulars Colin Baker and Nicola Bryant, plus Barbara Shelley. “Majus XVII - a paradise world for interplanetary tourists to relax and revel in the simple life. But all is not what it seems, as the Stranger and Miss Brown discover when decaying bodies rise from the ground, tourists are swallowed by the angry sea and a mysterious girl whose infatuated obsession with The Stranger soon threatens the life of everyone on the planet”.   

MORGAN - A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT (1966) - crazy artist fixated on gorillas; clips from KING KONG.

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MORTUS ILLUMINATA (2004) - girl sells her soul in exchange for five years of happiness, taking refuge in a convent. "Her soul holds the key to the destruction or survival of the deadlights realm, a world that exists between this and the next". Ref: Paul Higson.

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THE MOST HAUNTED HOUSE IN ENGLAND (2007)  - 63-minute documentary shot in Essex by Belinda Green-Smith.

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MR. FIRECUL (2004) - director Jade Camden. 15-minute short, David Ginola as the Devil, seeking an image change

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MR. SMITH (1974)  - short directed by Adrian Lyne. Peter Barkworth as an ordinary man driven to suicide by the pressures of his life. Ref: 'Ten Years Of Terror', FAB Press.

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THE MUMMY (1911) - for Urban Films. Professor dreams mummy comes to life. British?

THE MUMMY (1912) - "Man poses as revived mummy to fool sweetheart's father" - British Film Catalogue

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THE MUMMY (1999)  - blockbuster U.S. production starring Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz; largely filmed at Shepperton Studios.

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THE MUMMY RETURNS (2001)  - sequel to 1999's big summer hit, this time with a London setting (featuring the British Museum etc.) and U.K. locations.

MURDER AT THE GRANGE (1952) - short starring Tod Slaughter. Murderous butler.

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MURDER ON LINE ONE (1990) - killer apprehended following series of murders; as the killings continue, a reporter sets out to prove that the police may have the wrong man. Thriller directed by Anders Palm.

MURDER ROOMS: THE DARK BEGINNINGS OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (2000) - 2-part BBC drama written by David Pirie, pitting the young Arthur Conan Doyle and his mentor (the inspiration for his Holmes character) against a killer of prostitutes.

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MURDER: ULTIMATE GROUNDS FOR DIVORCE (1984) - directed by Morris Barry. Starring Toyah Wilcox, Roger Daltrey, Leslie Ash. Two couples on a camping holiday find their tempers fraying, until the suggestion that one of the four should murder another of their party…

MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (1971) - U.K. production involvement? U.S. film, shot in Spain.

THE MUSGRAVE RITUAL (1922) - based on the 'Sherlock Holmes' story by Conan Doyle.

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MUTANT CHRONICLES (Simon Hunter 2006)  - Thomas Jane, John Malkovich and Ron Perlman in big budget science fiction flop. Mankind does battle with mutated humans on Earth, while the lucky ones make their escape to Mars.

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MY BEST FRIEND’S BROTHER IS A CYBERMAN (1998)  - short directed by Richard Allison, screened along with his gory horror piece GRAVE MATTER at the Cinencuadre Film Festival in Argentina, December 2002. “He's a brother - like no other! A young boy discovers his best friend has a Cyberman for a big bully brother when he is forced to stay over while his parents visit the doctor's. Unfortunately this information causes a strange reaction in Billy (the Cyberman) who promptly escapes the house on a mad quest to find this 'Doctor'... Trickshot's first fully fledged short film is shot in glorious sepia monochrome for that authentic sixties feel, so re-live the nostalgia as a Cyberman rampages through the streets of suburban London!” – www.trickshot-films.co.uk

MY COUSIN, THE GHOST (1986)  - Hong Kong horror comedy directed by Wu Ma. Man sells his restaurant in Britain, returns to Hong Kong: turns out to be a zombie. Stephen Jones’ ‘Essential Monster Movie Guide’ lists this as a Hong Kong/U.K. production.

MYRTE AND THE DEMONS (1949) - Dutch/U.K. fantasy feature. Wood demons turn little girl's playmates into stone.

THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD (1993) - Robert Powell in version of Charles Dickens' unfinished novel.

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NAILBITER (1999)  - directed by Elliot Kew. Darkly-comic short, without dialogue; suggested cannibalism at end.

 

NAKED NAZI (2008)  - 61-minute amateur feature directed by Jason Impey. Listed on IMDb as 'horror' but the detailed review at SexGoreMutants website indicates it as more of a pornographic Nazisploitation item.

THE NAKED WORLD OF HARRISON MARKS (1967) - photographer fantasizes he is Dracula, James Bond, etc.

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NAN IN FAIRYLAND (1912)  - a giant’s children intend to eat a girl for dinner.

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THE NATURE OF THE BEAST (1988)  - tiger-like creature rumoured to be roaming northern moors. “The lurking nastiness on the moors is in danger of becoming a catch-all metaphor for unemployment and social and industrial decay” – Monthly Film Bulletin (December 1988).

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THE NAUGHTY DREAMS OF MISS OWEN (1987)  - British sex video in which a woman looks after her aunt’s house, haunted by the spirit of a large-breasted glamour model!

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THE NECROFILE (1999)  - ref: ‘English Gothic’. Completed?

NEGATIVES (1968) - couple's sex fantasies involve the husband impersonating Dr.Crippen. Directed by Peter Medak. With Glenda Jackson, Peter McEnery.

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N(EON) (2003)  - 28-minute short starring Eileen Daly, narrated by John Cale. Directed by Dave McKean, screened at the 2003 London Frightfest

 

NEVER LET ME GO (2010)  - dystopian romance set within a community where the young people are raised in order to have their organs harvested to preserve long life in others.  

NEVER TAKE SWEETS FROM A STRANGER (1961)  - Infamous and, for its time, shocking child abuse drama from Hammer Films. Felix Aylmer’s mute paedophile is portrayed towards the end of the movie almost as a Frankenstein’s monster type-figure in some ‘typical’ Hammer scenes.

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NEVER TOO YOUNG TO ROCK (1975) - glam rock musical starring Mud, The Rubettes, the Glitter Band. Set in future Britain where pop music is banned; scene in haunted house featuring bloody-mouthed body in closet, decapitated spectre carrying his head under his arm, Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band revealed as spirits.

THE NEWSBOY'S CHRISTMAS DREAM (1913) - silent fantasy, boy dreams of wizards, dragons, fire-breathing Stone Age monster.

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THE NEXT VICTIM (2003)  - 13-minute short directed by Owen Carey Jones. “Staff at Kissinger’s start running scared when several of their colleagues turn up dead”  - British Films Catalogue.

NICHOLAS AND ALEXANDRA (1971) - Tom Baker as Rasputin.

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THE NIGHT CHILD (1975)  - Italian 'killer child' opus with Richard Johnson and Nicoletta Elmi. 'Psychotronic Encyclopedia' and Don Willis' 'Horror And Science Fiction Films Checklist' both record this as a British/Italian movie. Much location work filmed in London.

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NIGHT FERRY (1976)  - Children's Film Foundation adventure. Thieves steal the mummy of an Egyptian boy king; one of the juvenile heroes is himself wrapped in bandages, and another pretends to be the mummy's ghost in order to scare the crooks.

A NIGHT OF MAGIC (1944) - British musical. Dream sequence featuring ancient sarcophagus containing living female mummy.

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NIGHT OF THE BIG HEAT (1960) - Associated Rediffusion t.v. version of John Lymington's novel, later filmed by Terence Fisher. 90 minutes running time, according to Keith Topping's book 'A Vault Of Horror'.

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NIGHT OF THE LIVING BOD (2002)  - details of a Halloween party in Scotland were posted to the alt.horror newsgroup in October 2002, mentioning various events including the following: “Can your heart stand the pulse pounding thrills of our mini-movies EVIL TED and NIGHT OFTHE LIVING BOD?”. Amateur short?

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NIGHTMARE (1984)  - Alex Chandon (BAD KARMA/CRADLE OF FEAR) made this super-8 short, his first film, at the age of 15. Ref: ‘The Dark Side’ (October 1991). Presumably it is a horror-themed movie?

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NIGHTSHADE (1995)  - Children's Film Unit production about a troubled family taking a holiday; the children experience supernatural phenomena connected with ecology and the future of our planet.

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THE NINE AGES OF NAKEDNESS (1969) - directed by Harrison Marks. Another sexploiter from Marks, includes caveman, Frankenstein sketches.

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NINE DAYS IN HELL (2004) - directed by Martin Stitt. Two detectives hunt a serial killer. Multi-camera finale in the style of Mike Figgis' TIMECODE.

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NINE TENTHS (2002)  - 'Don't F**k With The Dead'. "An horrific and disturbing film that concentrates on the chilling possession of an innocent holiday-maker and the subsequent awful atrocities that follow" - www.ninetenths.com. Independent British horror feature. Filming apparently completed but post-production abandoned at an advanced stage after the director suffered a serious motor accident (ref: M.J. Simpson) 

1984 (1955) - from Orwell.

1984 (1984) - the inevitable remake in the very year, with Richard Burton and John Hurt.

NO BLADE OF GRASS (1970) - post-apocalyptic drama.

NO HAUNT FOR A GENTLEMAN (1952) - supernatural comedy; owner of country house enlists help of resident Elizabethan ghost to frighten mother-in-law.

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NO. 1 OF THE SECRET SERVICE (1977)  - spy spoof directed by Lindsay Shonteff. ‘Vampire girl’ character appears briefly.

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NORMAN BATES (1981) - elaborate promo video for the single 'Norman Bates' by synth-pop act Landscape. Released as supporting short in some U.K. cinemas? With Pamela Stephenson in the Janet Leigh role.

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NOSE HAIR (2005) - gory one-joke comedy short by James Sharpe - young woman tugs on an unsightly nose-hair protruding from her boyfriend's nostril, resulting in his brains spilling out messily!

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THE NOSTRIL PICKER (1993)  - one of the revamped Vipco video company's roster of mid-1990s releases. Internet Movie Database refers to this as a U.K. film but this may be due solely to the fact that Vipco distributed it.

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THE NOTEBOOKS OF CORNELIUS CROW (2004)  - “the story of the search by the protagonist Adso Brown for the notebooks of Mr. Crow who is responsible for every major event in London’s history, The Great Fire, the Plague, the Peasants’ Revolt, Jack The Ripper’s slayings and the Poll Tax Riots among them” (Ref: Paul Higson). Feature, premiered at Cannes May 2004.

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O LUCKY MAN! (1973) - bit with man-pig hybrid. Sequel - BRITANNIA HOSPITAL.

OBSESSION (1948) - man kidnaps wife's lover, holds him hostage for lengthy period, intending to murder him in acid bath.

THE OCTOBER MOTH (1959) - psychological drama; retarded farm worker believes a dead crash victim is his mother. "Mad killer, isolated house" - Donald C.Willis.

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THE OFFENCE (1972)  - Sidney Lumet's searing copper-versus-paedophile clash, one of the greatest British crime movies of the GET CARTER era, as Sean Connery's brutal detective attempts to knock a confession out of whimpering Ian Bannen. A "gruelling horror-film-in-all-but-name" - 'English Gothic'.

OH MR.PORTER (1937) - wonderful Will Hay comedy set in 'haunted' railway station.

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OKTOBER (1998)  - 3-part tale of biological terror starring Stephen Tompkinson as our hero-on-the-run. Written and directed by Stephen Gallagher; released as a 100-minute feature version on DVD in 2004.

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UN OMBRA NELL'OMBRA (1979)  - directed by Pier Carpi, starring Frank Finlay and Ian Bannen. Internet Movie Database records this as an Italian/U.K. co-production.

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ON A LIFE’S EDGE (2001)  - two men attempt to talk a suicidal woman down from a high-rise balcony; at the end it is revealed that she has already killed herself two days previously, and the men are her guides in the afterlife. 10-minute short directed by Mike Walker.

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ON ALL FLOORS (2002)  - 4-minute short directed by Geoff Evans. “When a lift fails and five individuals are trapped, fearing for their lives, strange things can happen”  - British Films Catalogue.

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ON THE GAME (1973)  - Stanley Long-directed history of ‘prostitution through the ages’; among the vignettes that make up the movie, there appears a witchfinder sequence. (Ref: Gavin Whitaker)

THE ONE-EYED SOLDIERS (1965) - scene with sadistic dwarf, torture chamber.

ONE OF THE MISSING (197?)  - BFI short, one of the early works of director Tony Scott. Based on an Ambrose Bierce story, a la the author’s celebrated ‘An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge’.

ONE MORE TIME (1969) - sequel to SALT AND PEPPER, directed by Jerry Lewis. With Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford; brief bit with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee as Frankenstein and Dracula.

THE £1000 SPOOK (1907) - directed by Walter Booth. Materialization of a ghost.

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ONLY A ROOM-ER (1916)  - silent short; men play tricks on their friend while he spends a night in a ‘haunted’ room.

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THE OTHER WORLD (2006) - entry in the 'Film Club' website's 'World Short Horror Film Challenge' competition, with entrants invited to make a new horror short within 13 days. U.K. production?

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OTHERWORLD (2003)  - Welsh animated fantasy feature, based on Celtic legends, featuring gigantic wicker demon, zombies, bloody violence; directed by Derek Hayes, with live-action bookends by Marc Evans (of MY LITTLE EYE fame).

OUR MOTHER'S HOUSE (1967) - children believe they can communicate with their late mother, whose body they have buried behind their house.

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OUT OF ORDER (1980)  - ref: Mark Coyle. (Horror?) short with a cameo by Bob Monkhouse.

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OUT OF TOWN (1988) - short directed by Norman Hull. Man gets foot stuck in ground, passers-by won't help him. "At dusk, something emerges from the hole and kills him" - 'ripper', British Horror Films message board, posted 22/6/05.

OUT OF THE DARKNESS (1985) - ghostly child haunts Derbyshire village.

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OUT OF THE NIGHT (2009)  - 87-minute horror feature directed by Dean I. Anderson, listed on IMDb. No reviews, no release date, no further information other than cast/crew. Completed?

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PANDAEMONEON (1999)  - Britiain’s black metal rockers Cradle Of Filth in a live concert video, which also features Alex Chandon’s blood-soaked promo video for their ‘From The Cradle To Enslave’.

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PANDORA AND THE FLYING DUTCHMAN (1950)  - blasphemer who killed his innocent wife is condemned to roam the seven seas for eternity. Flamboyant Technicolor fantasy directed by Albert Lewin, starring James Mason and Ava Gardner.

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PANIC AT MADAME TUSSAUD'S (1949) - directed by Peter Graham Scott. "Fight in the Chamber Of Horrors" - Donald C.Willis, 'Horror And Science Fiction Films'.

PANINO (1999)  - short screened at the Leeds Film Festival 2000. “After an unnatural death comes an unnatural burial”.

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PARANOID (1997) - early animated fragment by Robert Morgan, available on the limited-edition DVD of his collected shorts.

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PARANOID (2000)  - suspense thriller directed by John Duigan. Jessica Alba as fashion model abducted and held at remote lodge.

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THE PASSENGER (2002) – 7-minute video short, directed by Paul Burton, “in which a woman (Clare Hanson) brutally kills a man (Gary Roberts)”. Ref: M.J. Simpson.

PASSENGERS (1996) - 25-minute vampire movie, from Paul Shrimpton's 'Home Made Films'. Ref: 'Samhain' issue 56. Completed?

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PAW (2003) - 10-minute short directed by Duncan Nicholl. Couple find a bear's severed paw in a wood. They take it home, but find it exerts a strange influence over their lives.

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THE PERFECT CRIME (1978)  - London-based giallo directed by Giuseppe Rosati

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THE PERFECT WOMAN (2006) - hundreds of beautiful women arrive at a castle to participate in a reality t.v. show to marry a millionaire; producer intends to clone their body parts to create a 'perfect woman'. Heroine "is determined to find out what the truth of the show is and why the girls who win the challenges keep disappearing"...

THE PERILS OF PORK PIE (1916) - mummy in British Museum comes to life in dream sequence.

PERVIRELLA (1996) - directed by Alex Chandon.

 

PETER (2011) - docudrama mix of archive footage and dramatized scenes to tell the story of Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe.

THE PHANTOM LIGHT (1935) - directed by Michael Powell. Comedy thriller set at haunted lighthouse.

THE PHANTOM OF SOHO (1963) - German shocker based on Bryan Edgar Wallace story. U.K. co-production?

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (1989) - Robert Englund behind the mask this time, in a Harry Alan Towers (U.K.?) production filmed in Hungary.

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THE PHANTOM SHIP (1908)  - mysterious events take place on board the title vessel. Directed by J. H. Martin and A. E. Coleby

PHOTOGRAPHING A GHOST (1898) - directed by George Albert Smith. Ghost vanishes and re-appears, as a photographer unsuccessfully attempts to capture its image on film.

PHOTOGRAPHING FAIRIES (1997) - drug-induced visions of fairies; violence at end. Dark fantasy starring Toby Stephens, bearing some similarities with THE ASPHYX (which featured his father in a lead role).

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THE PIANO TUNER OF EARTHQUAKES (2005) - demonic doctor abducts opera singer, intends to turn her into a mechanical nightingale. Live-action feature from animation team The Brothers Quay.

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1973) - Dan Curtis-produced remake of the Oscar Wilde horror/morality tale, directed by Glenn Jordan. Filmed in U.K.?

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THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1976)  - feature-length BBC t.v. production, scripted by John Osborne, starring John Gielgud and Jeremy Brett.

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THE PIED PIPER (1907)  - directed by Percy Stow

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THE PIED PIPER (1971)  - 1960s singer-songwriter Donovan in the title role in Jacques Demy's version of the traditional 'rats in Hamelin' tale.

 

PIGGY (2012)  - grim urban psychological character study/vigilante revenge piece directed by Kieron Hawkes, packaged and reviewed as a horror movie (pig mask and sharp blades prominent all over the poster); perhaps more akin to a sort of British take on Gaspar Noe territory.

PINK FLOYD - THE WALL (1982) - fantasy based on the Pink Floyd l.p. - animated scenes include monsters etc.

THE PINK PANTHER STRIKES AGAIN (1976) - Herbert Lom in scenes reminiscent of his stint as Hammer's PHANTOM OF THE OPERA.

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PINK STRING AND SEALING WAX (1949) - Ealing Studios drama - 19th-century publican's wife plots to have her husband poisoned.

THE PLAGUE DOGS (1983) - "canine survival story, with sf-horror overtones" - Donald C.Willis, 'Horror And Science Fiction Films II'. Animated feature based on Richard Adams' novel.

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THE PLANT (1994) - BBC 'Screen One' production - "film about a t.v. gardening programme digging up bodies on air" - www.pfd.co.uk. Directed by Jonathan Lewis.

PLEASE, SIR! (1971) - based on the t.v. sitcom. Brief 'werewolf' gag reference.

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THE POOL MONSTER (1986) - animated film, just 10 seconds long according to the entry at Kevin Lyons' 'Encyclopedia Of Fantastic Films And TV' website! From 'Foiled Productions'.

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PORTRAIT OF A MATADOR (1958)  - 23-minute short. Cursed painting.

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POSTMORTEM (1998)  - Charlie Sheen pursues a serial killer. Directed by Albert Pyun, filmed on location in Glasgow.

THE PREHISTORIC MAN (1908) - directed by Walter Booth. Artist is pursued by animated prehistoric man, draws a dinosaur which also comes to life and eats the caveman!

PREHISTORIC PEEPS (1905) - silent fantasy. Giant, apeman.

PRESENT SPIRITS (1994) - short film scripted by Leslie Thomas. Hordes of friendly ghosts descend upon a particular house at Christmas. With Paula Wilcox, Sandra Dickinson.

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PRIMITIVE LONDON (1965)  - 'Mondo'-style movie, features a reconstruction of Jack the Ripper's crimes.

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PRISONERS OF THE LOST UNIVERSE (1983)  - cut-rate FLASH GORDON wannabe directed by Terry Marcel. "Leprous zombies" - Monthly Film Bulletin, June 1984. "Dead monk-like creatures" - Donald C. Willis.

THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1970) - includes fake Loch Ness Monster.

PROFESSOR POPPER'S PROBLEM(S) (1974) - 6-episode serial for the Children's Film Foundation. Professor and his pupils take pills which reduce them in size. Chapter 3, 'The Monster'; giant spider.

 

PROFILE (2018) – Timur Bekmambetov-directed computer-screen thriller about journalist who creates a fake profile on Facebook in order to investigate ISIS recruitment of women from Europe. Categorised as ‘horror’ by some sources. UK production involvement.

PROVIDENCE (1977) - French/Swiss/U.K. production directed by Alain Resnais. Werewolves feature as minor plot element in story of dying author inviting family to his home for one final weekend.

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PSYCHIATRIC CHANNEL (2006) - 11-minute short directed by Louis Segal, screened at the 2006 Festival of Fantastic Films. "A film about a man in his dwelling watching television late at night alone. A new channel appears called"The Psychiatric Channel".... Twilight zone style things start to occur".

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PSYCHOKILLER! (2000)  - short directed by Ariel Goldblatt of Goldsmith’s College, New Cross. Photographed by Alex Ryle, a familiar name on the low-budget horror circuit. “A prominent artist has a moral dilemma centring around her latest exhibition, the provocative 'Psycho Killer!’ “  - www.alexryle.com

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PSYCHOPATHS (2010)  - 75-minute feature from Jason Impey. Pair of psychopathic rapists go on the run, seeking to abduct a victim.

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PURGATORY (2006) - an 'out-of-the-ordinary funeral director' buries victims alive and steals their possessions as his fee. 8-minute short.

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PUZZLE (1974)  - Italian giallo featuring an amnesiac and the usual string of corpses. Opening scenes filmed in London?

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THE QUATERMASS EXPERIMENT (2005) - live t.v. broadcast, a remake of the Nigel Kneale classic, starring Jason Flemyng, Adrian Dunbar, David Tennant and Mark Gatiss. Shown on BBC4 on April 2nd 2005.

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QUEEN OF THE BLUES (1979)  - vehicle for British sex star Mary Millington  - includes a sub-plot about a supposedly ‘haunted’ nightclub, with the apparition ultimately revealed as a gangland villain posing in a skeleton suit!

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QUEEN OF THE DAMNED (2002)  - adapted from Ann Rice’s ‘The Vampire Lestat’ and ‘Queen Of The Damned’; filmed in Australia but set in London, L.A., and Glastonbury! Final scene features two vampires walking along Westminster Bridge.

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A QUESTION OF FAITH (2003) - 30-minute short starring Rob Leetham, who also plays the lead in British giallo MYSOPHOBIA. Leetham's C.V. at 'Shooting People' website states this is a "pilot based on the HELLRAISER series of films".

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QUILLS (2000)  - Geoffrey Rush as the Marquis de Sade in asylum-set drama directed by Philip Kaufman, shot at Pinewood and on U.K. locations.

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RABBIT (2005) - two children kill a rabbit, and discover it contains a small golden idol with the power to turn houseflies into jewels. 9-minute animated morality tale directed by Run Wrake, based on a collection of illustrations from 1960s educational stickers.

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RACHEL (2019)  - self-styled 'supernatural revenge thriller' short film directed by David L. Knight. Junkie who wakes to find himself bound and gagged finds an ally in the ghost of a girl he once knew.

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RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981)  - Steven Spielberg and George Lucas combined forces for this tribute to 1930s/40s adventure serials, the first of their 'Indiana Jones' movies; thrills and spills lead to horrific climax as spirits from the opened 'Ark of the Covenant' cause faces to melt and heads to explode. Big-budget U.S. production filmed on location worldwide, with interiors shot at our own Elstree Studios.

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THE RAIN HORSE (2008)  11-minute adaptation of the Ted Hughes short story, directed by Sebastian Godwin and starring Jason Isaacs. Man is plagued by visions of a menacing (and most likely symbolic) wild black horse pursuing him and his children through the woods.

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THE RATS ARE COMING! THE WEREWOLVES ARE HERE! (1970) - Andy Milligan shocker, filmed at least partially in the U.K.

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RAY HARRYHAUSEN (1996)  - 15-minute documentary on the king of stop-motion animation. Ref: 'The Film Centre' website.

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THE REAL THING AT LAST (1916)  - an early appearance for Ernest Thesiger in this contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’, said to have emphasized the supernatural aspects of the story.

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A RECKONING (2011)  - post-apocalyptic drama - what may be the last man on earth struggles to retain his sanity, and creates 'people' made from straw with whom he can interact.  

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RECURRING (2004) - scientists experiment with 'dream technology' in a hidden bunker - girl called Gina, "haunted by dark nightmares", becomes involved. Ref: Paul Higson.

THE RED VIOLIN (1998) - Canadian/U.K./Italian/U.S. co-production. Cursed violin, varnished in blood, causes ill luck to various owners.

 

THE REFORMATION OF ST. JULES (1949) - one of the shorts from the A STRANGE EXPERIENCE WITH ALGERNON BLACKWOOD series. The author tells the story of a 'skywriting plane' scheme which leads to the religious conversion of a notorious gambling town; the question as to whether the events are a supernatural phenomenon or not being rendered moot by the closing revelation that the man telling the tale is a former asylum inmate.

THE RELIC (1997)  - Peter Hyams' awful CGI-monster movie, big-budget U.S. production co-funded by the BBC.

 

THE RENDEZVOUS (1949) - one of the six A STRANGE EXPERIENCE WITH ALGERNON BLACKWOOD shorts, with the author telling a story direct to camera.

THE RESIDENT PATIENT (1921) - directed by Maurice Elvey, entry in the 'Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes' series. Man lives in constant state of fear, is eventually found hanged.

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RESURRECTED (1989)  - David Thewlis stars in drama about a returning Falklands War veteran, once presumed dead. “It’s possible to read Kevin as a ghost whose appearance helps to trigger off malign forces…his stiff gait and strange, muffled figure give him all the appearance of a zombie…such a reading is also encouraged by lines of dialogue like “Do you believe in ghosts? Perhaps that’s what I am”, Kevin’s habit of saying things like “When I was dead”, and the eerie scene in which he listens to the tape of a séance in which his mother had tried to reach him” – Monthly Film Bulletin, October 1989.

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THE RETURN OF THE PAPER BAG MAN (AND FRIENDS) (1993)  - 50-minute sequel to the amateur short THE PAPER BAG MAN REMIX. Set in the year 2093, the Paper Bag Man helps to take revenge on a gang of drug dealers. Ref: 'Samhain' #38.

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RETURN TO THE LOST WORLD (1992) - more Harry Alan Towers rubber dinosaurs, follow-up to the 1992 THE LOST WORLD. British/Canadian/South African? (most sources list the film as Canadian only)

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RETURN TO WATERLOO (1984)  - hour-long ‘state of the nation’ fantasy satire made by Ray Davies of The Kinks, for Channel 4. Ordinary-looking commuter who may in fact be a rapist and serial killer; scene where he imagines fellow passengers as shop dummies, decapitating them with his briefcase; plenty more horror/violent imagery.

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REVENGE OF THE ELEPHANT MAN (2004) - 27-minute short directed by Ken Russell. Woman fused with elephant, giving birth to a son with a trunk hanging from his genital region!

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REVENGERS TRAGEDY (2002)  - Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean play is updated by Frank Cottrell Boyce to a Liverpudlian setting in a near-future Britain which has been swamped by floods. Christopher Eccleston plays Vindici, the ‘revenger’ of the title, seeking to avenge the murder of his wife on their wedding day ten years previously. Directed by Alex Cox.

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RHINO BITCH (1995)  - 35-minute splatter comedy featuring a rhino-like creature. Excerpts can be seen in one of the documentaries on Anchor Bay’s 4-disc EVIL DEAD box set, which also features interview snippets with director Thomas Lawes.

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RICHARD III (1911) - from the Shakespeare play.

RICHARD III (1995) - Shakespeare's play re-invented as an all-action thriller, set in a fascist-run 1930s Britain.

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THE RIDDLE (2007)  - Derek Jacobi, Vanessa Redgrave and Vinnie Jones in psychological thriller about a series of murders connected to an unpublished Charles Dickens manuscript. Director Brendan Foley went on to make horror movie LEGEND OF THE BOG. Rights to THE RIDDLE were purchased by the newspaper 'The Mail On Sunday', who released 2.6 million copies of it as a giveaway freebie to their readers - a rather unusual premiere! 

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RISE AND FALL OF IDI AMIN (1980)  - dramatization of the infamous Ugandan dictator's life, a British/Kenyan co-production  featuring murders galore and the key image of two severed heads stored in Amin's fridge!

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THE RIVER KING (2005) - investigator is sent to examine the case of a drowned schoolboy, begins to suspect that a hazing-style initiation gone wrong may have contributed to the death; meanwhile, it seems the victim's spirit may be leaving clues to explain what really happened. Semi-supernatural mystery directed by Nick Willing. Canadian/U.K.

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ROADSIDE (1992)  - ref: 'The Film Centre' short films website. "Louise is stranded in desolate, isolated countryside...as darkness falls a menacing stranger passes by and offers to help, he might be the Roadside Killer".

ROBIN HOOD AND THE SORCERER (1984) - feature-length edition of the HTV television series; sorcerer invokes "powers of the Lords Of Darkness"; possession; visions of rotting, hanged corpses.

ROBIN HOOD: THE SWORDS OF WAYLAND (1984) - further film-length HTV drama, Robin (Michael Praed) and his men versus the Abbess of Ravenscar (Rula Lenska), head of the coven The Cauldron Of Lucifer.

 

ROCK BAND VS. VAMPIRES (2017)  -  IMDb entry gives this a 90-minute running time but only a trailer has been confirmed as existing. Full film completed? 

THE ROCKING HORSE WINNER (1950) - boy has ability to pick race winners as he rides rocking horse. What could have been light, whimsical fantasy plays out admirably to logical, much darker conclusion.

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THE ROCKING HORSE WINNER (1982)  - Robert Bierman-directed short based on the D. H. Lawrence story, previously filmed in 1950. Boy is able to predict racing results by riding his toy rocking-horse, but eventually dies in the process. 

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ROGUE FILMMAKER (2012)  - mockumentary about West Midlands low budget filmmaker Baz Hancher (directed by Bazz under the pseudonym 'Hank B. Marvelous'!) and featuring excerpts from his short films, including some horror scenes.

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RUBBER JOHNNY (2005) - typically disturbing short from Warp Films' Chris Cunningham, featuring the mutated character of the title.

RUDDIGORE (1972) - directed by Peter Seabourne. Ref: Internet Movie Database. The Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, presumably in a filmed version (for t.v.?) of a stage production?

RUDDIGORE (1982) - directed by Barrie Gavin and Christopher Renshaw. Keith Michell as 'Robin Oakapple/Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd' in this 1982 production of the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. Ref: Internet Movie Database. U.K.?

THE RULING CLASS (1971) - directed by Peter Medak. Peter O'Toole as insane aristocrat who believes he is Christ, then decides he is Jack The Ripper. Murders, visions of the House Of Lords infested by rotting zombies.

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RUN FOR THE SHADOWS (2002)  - 25-minute murder thriller directed by Leicestershire-based filmmaker Paul Burton, starring Gary Roberts as the killer.

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SACRED FLESH (1999)  - reference to demon-possession; skeletal nun figure in Purgatory; horned demon; flagellation and self-mutilation in a convent setting.

SAFE HAVEN (1995) - sexual tensions and attempted murder as two young couples holiday on a remote island hideaway. Features Donald Pleasence in a supporting role.

THE SALESMAN (2001)  - amateur short directed by Peter Courridge. Documentary crew accompanies door-to-door salesman on his rounds. Encounter with serial killer? Ref: www.telsa.moviespage.com . (“Just call me Lucifer”)

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SALOME (1973)  - early experimental short directed by Clive Barker.

SATAN’S CASTLE (1975)  - the Internet Movie Database lists this as a horror fantasy directed by Jeremy Kay (the noted art director/production designer). It is supposedly a German/U.K. co-production, filmed in England, set in a subterranean world inhabited by bat-creatures and devils. See also THE WAXING MOON (1976).

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SATAN'S DAUGHTERS OF SIN (199?) - Mystique video production, sex film with minor Satanism touches.

SATURDAY ISLAND (1951) - man-stranded-on-desert-isle yarn; brief sequence with monster lizard.

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THE SCARRED FACE (1928)  - Harry Agar Lyons as 'Dr. Sin Fang' - one of a 1928 series of six shorts

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THE SCEPTIC INVESTIGATES (2017) - 'pilot' 27-minute video by Velton Lishke, on YouTube - investigator into phenomena, UFOs, ghosts etc.

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SCHALCKEN THE PAINTER (1979)  - Leslie Megahey’s celebrated 70-minute version of the J. Sheridan le Fanu tale based on the life of 17th-century artist Gottfried Schalcken. Made for the BBC’s ‘Omnibus’, and featuring plenty of sex and horror, notably during the finale when the heroine is sold off to a living corpse!

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SCHNEIDER’S 2ND STAGE  (2000)  - dark psychological thriller with Kenneth Branagh – following directions on a scribbled map, a man finds himself in the middle of nowhere; taking a call on his mobile phone, he is instructed to check the boot of his car. “What he finds there is the beginning of a nightmare from which he may never escape” – Substation Short Shorts Film Festival, Singapore.

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THE SCORPION’S STING (1916)  - ex-convict sells his soul to the Devil.

SCREEN PLAY (1992) - animation by Barry Purves. "Splattery finale" - Jeremy Clarke, 'The BFI Companion To Horror'.

SCROOGE (1913) - from Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'.

SCROOGE (1922) - film no. 7 in 'Tense Moments With Great Authors' series.

SCROOGE (1923) - film no. 5 in 'Gems Of Literature' series.

SCROOGE (1928) - scripted by and starring Bransby Williams.

SCROOGE (1935)

SCROOGE (1951) - with Alastair Sim in the classic version of the Dickens story.

SCROOGE (1970) - with Albert Finney.

SCROOGE: OR, MARLEY'S GHOST (1901) - directed by Walter R.Booth, for Robert Paul.

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SÉANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON (1964)  - directed by Bryan Forbes.

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THE SECOND COMING (2003)  - controversial 2-part drama for ITV, starring Christopher Eccleston as a modern, miracle-working Messiah. Also features demonic agents of Satan.

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THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF TOM THUMB (1993)  - Dave Borthwick’s bizarre hour-long animated feature; macabre, offbeat ambience and weird fantasy creatures in the Svankmajer/Selick tradition.

SECRET CEREMONY (1969) - Elizabeth Taylor, Mia Farrow and Robert Mitchum in VERTIGO-like drama directed by Joseph Losey.

SECRETS OF THE PHANTOM CAVERNS (1984) - directed by Don Sharp. Subterranean adventure features lost underground civilization, serpent-like monsters, etc.

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SEE NO EVIL: THE MOORS MURDERS (2006) - two-part drama for ITV, starring Maxine Peake and Sean Harris as 1960s child-killers Hindley and Brady.

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SELF-HELP (2019) - directed by Dan Storey. Online trailer suggests an oddball modern black comedy - film was screened at the British Horror Film Festival 2019.

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THE SEPARATION (2003) - animated short directed by Robert Morgan, a DEAD RINGERS-like tale of separated Siamese twins who just can't live without their former conjoined status…

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7 DAYS TO LIVE (2000)  - German/Czech/U.S. co-production starring Amanda Plummer, Sean Pertwee, and a largely British cast.

SEVEN DAYS TO NOON (1950) - London evacuated as scientist threatens to explode bomb, as protest against the use of such weapons.

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SEVEN GAMES (2005) - football fan commits murders, thinking that these will act as sacrifices to appease the gods and help his local team win a vital series of games. Directed by Mark Elliott.

SEVEN THUNDERS (1957) - directed by Hugo Fregonese. Version of the Dr.Petiot story, with James Robertson Justice as the wartime poisoner.

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THE SEX FILES (1997)  - "Special Agent Scullery is sent to investigate a mysterious disappearance and is soon the subject of a very intimate investigation of herself!" - soft porn video from Mistique Productions, this time an X-FILES spoof.

SHADES OF BLACK (1992) - bikers break into house of retired conjuror who is also a practitioner in the black arts. Ref: 'Samhain' issue 32. Completed?

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SHADOW ON THE EARTH (1988)  - influenced by a t.v. screening of INVADERS FROM MARS, youngsters suspect that their neighbour is an alien. Comedy drama made for BBC2.

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SHAKEDOWN: RETURN OF THE SONTARANS (1994)  - ‘Doctor Who’ spin-off video production from DreamWatch Media, scripted by Terrance Dicks.

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SHANGHAI KNIGHTS (2003)  - lively action-comedy vehicle for Jackie Chan and Owen Wilson, filmed in Prague but set in 19th-century London. Jack the Ripper makes a brief appearance; dialogue references to zombies and a mummy.

THE SHE-BEAST (1965) - Michael Reeves' directorial debut, starring Ian Ogilvy and Barbara Steele. Filmed in Italy.

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SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE SILK STOCKING (2004) - feature-length production for BBC t.v., with Rupert Everett as Holmes. Young women murdered by an apparent foot-fetishist who stuffs stockings into their mouths.

SHERLOCK HOLMES: THE LAST VAMPYRE (1992) - adaptation of Conan Doyle's 'The Sussex Vampire', episode of Granada t.v. series with Jeremy Brett as Holmes.

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SHIPMAN (2002)  - two-part ITV drama starring James Bolam as the true-life murderous doctor.

SHOCK TREATMENT (1981) - sequel to THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW.

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SHOOTING BIGFOOT (2013)  - British documentary about US Bigfoot hunters. Fake or real? You decide. 

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A SHORT VISION (1956) - 7-minute animation by Joan & Peter Foldes. "Thing appears in the sky and destroys all life" - Walt Lee, 'Reference Guide To Fantastic Films'.

SIESTA (1987) - U.S./U.K. co-production filmed in Spain, directed by Mary Lambert. "Borrows some ideas from CARNIVAL OF SOULS" - Michael Weldon, 'The Psychotronic Video Guide'.

SIGHT (2000)  - American architect in London, able to see and communicate with the dead, teams up with policewoman to help her solve mysterious cases. Feature-length pilot for proposed t.v. series, directed by Paul Anderson. Andrew McCarthy and Amanda Redman star.

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THE SIGN OF FOUR (1923) - silent Sherlock Holmes yarn directed by Maurice Elvey.

THE SIGN OF FOUR (1932)  - early adaptation of Doyle’s ‘Sherlock Holmes’ classic

THE SIGN OF FOUR (1983) - Ian Richardson as Sherlock Holmes in this companion piece to Douglas Hickox's HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES.

THE SIGN OF FOUR (1987) - Granada t.v.'s adaptation for their long-running Holmes series starring Jeremy Brett. This one also features John Thaw and Ronald Lacey.

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SILENCE BECOMES YOU (2005) - U.K./Lithuanian film directed by Stephanie Sinclaire, starring Alicia Silverstone. Two weird sisters pick up a drifter and take him home, for their own unspecified purposes. Hints of ghostly and paranormal activity pepper the film.

THE SILENT HOUSE (1929) - directed by Walter Forde. Hypnotism; clutching hand; snake-pit; secret panel used to conceal corpses.

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THE SILENT PLAYGROUND (1964) – listed as a horror film on the Internet Movie Database and in the Routledge book ‘British Horror Cinema’. The 1980 edition of ‘The Sunday Times Guide To Movies On Television’ states “unpretentious little British thriller about some children in possession of dangerous drugs”.

SILVER BLAZE (1937) - Arthur Wontner as 'Sherlock Holmes', investigating a murder supposedly committed by a racehorse! Also released as MURDER AT THE BASKERVILLES.

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SIMON MAGUS (1999)  - Ian Holm appears as the Devil in dark 19th-century Jewish fantasy.

SIR HENRY AT RAWLINSON END (1980) - Viv Stanshall's creation reaches cinema screens; mansion haunted by ghost seeking his missing trousers. A work of genius.

 

SIREN (2015)  - dark fairytale-like fantasy drama directed by Jesse Peyronel  - woman is able to enrapture men using the power of her unique scent, and the military take an interest in wanting to weaponise this ability.

SISTER MY SISTER (1994) - psychological murder story with Julie Walters and Joely Richardson.

THE SIX NAPOLEONS (1922) - silent short from the series 'Further Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes'.

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SKINNED (2021) - 16-minute short by Andre Harrison, “the tale of a loving couple pushed beyond their limits when what they have been slaving away for is suddenly taken away and the brutal vengeance that is brought upon those who took it.” Screened at Horror-on-Sea festival in 2022.

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SKYGGEN (2005) - man suffering from memory loss is framed for a series of murders and stalked by the real killer. Directed by Jemshaid Ashraf.

SLAVE GIRLS (1967) - hunter discovers lost tribe of primitive females. Daft Hammer exotica directed by Michael Carreras.

THE SLEEPER (2000)  - woman staying at her son’s farm is haunted by a restless spirit. Feature-length BBC production based on Gillian White’s novel.

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SLEEPY HOLLOW (1999) – U.S./German-funded production filmed entirely in Britain by director Tim Burton, giving his typically dark and weird slant on Washington Irving's tale of The Headless Horseman. Decapitations galore; Christopher Walken's horseman resembles Hammer's Dracula, and among the cast are such home-grown greats as Christopher Lee and Michael Gough.

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SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (2012)  - big budget dark fantasy shot mainly in the UK.

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SOHO SQUARE (2000) - serial killer movie directed by Jamie Rafn. Screened by the Sundance Channel in 2004

 

SOLOMON KANE (2009)  - dark fantasy based on the Robert E. Howard character, starring James Purefoy.

 

SOLSTICE AT THE MIDLIFE CIRCUS (2011)  - 8-minute short directed by Tom Lee Rutter. "A middle aged man celebrates the summer solstice in a pagan initiation only to find himself faced with the spectrum of his life where he confronts the demons within to expose his inner peace"

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SOLVING PROBLEMS: ZERO BUDGET FILM MAKING (2010) - short documentary by Filipe Maciel, interviews with ultra-low-budget British horror filmmakers including Marc Price (COLIN).

SOMEONE AT THE DOOR (1936) - journalist moves into old dark house, creates a fake murder story which begins to come true.

SOMEONE AT THE DOOR (1950) - Hammer remake of the 1936 comedy thriller.

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SOMEONE BEHIND THE DOOR (1971)  - Charles Bronson is programmed by a brain surgeon in order to make him kill the doctor’s wife. Anthony Perkins and Jill Ireland co-star in this multi-national take on MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE themes, with some U.K. production involvement.

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SOMETHING TO HIDE (1971)  - Peter Finch and Linda Hayden in rather unsavoury tale of  “marital infidelity, mental breakdown and murder” (ref: ‘Ten Years Of Terror’, FAB Press).

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THE SON OF THE KING (2004)  - 10-minute short based on Arthurian legend; witches Morganna and Lady Aviana use their powers in a battle of good versus evil. Ref: M.J. Simpson. Screened in Plymouth, May 2004.

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THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME (1976) - Led Zeppelin's concert movie, includes fantasy scenes of decapitated gangsters, werewolf, WITCHFINDER GENERAL-like activity, Jimmy Page with demonic eyes, etc.

THE SORROWS OF SATAN (1917) - Devil; scenes in Hell at beginning and end.

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SOUL MAN (2003) 18-minute short by John Heaney, screened at the Festival Of Fantastic Films. “When a Manchester lad borrows 60p from his flatmate for an ice lolly, he gives him in exchange his soul, which is unfortunate as his flatmate subsequently reveals himself to be the Prince of Darkness and he now has just enough souls to conquer Heaven. But to keep the soul, Satan must catch the man committing a deadly sin”  - M.J. Simpson.

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SOULS ARK (1999)  - ex-‘Doctor Who’ cast members Colin Baker and Wendy Padbury star in video production concerning strange goings on at an archaeological dig. 

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SPACE CADETS (2004) - 53-minute sf featurette, shot on mini-DV, directed by Martin Tempest. Space mission to Mars affected by crew mutiny, radiation sickness, ship's officer killing off crew members in order to re-establish control.

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SPACEWAYS (1953) - directed by Terence Fisher. Hammer science-fiction, scientist accused of murdering wife and stashing her body into space rocket.

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THE SPANIARD’S CURSE (1958)  - wrongly-accused man vows vengeance from beyond the grave. Set up as a horror film, this turns into a disappointingly routine thriller with little genre content.

THE SPECKLED BAND (1912) - based on Conan Doyle's 'Sherlock Holmes' tale. Murder in old house; snake.

THE SPECKLED BAND (1923) - adaptation of the Conan Doyle story for Stoll's 'Last Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes' series.

THE SPECKLED BAND (1931) - feature version with Raymond Massey as Holmes. Directed by Jack Raymond.

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SPENCER (2021) - Pablo Larrain's biopic of Princess Diana plays very much like a horror movie, with ghosts, a folk-horror scarecrow, and treatment of its main character pitched somewhere between THE SHINING and HOUSE OF WHIPCORD. Extraordinary.

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SPIDERWEB (197?)  - short version of Jorge Luis Borges’ ‘Death And The Compass’, directed by Paul Miller, starring Nigel Hawthorne as ‘Lonnrot’. Included as an extra on the DVD release of Alex Cox’s 1996 DEATH AND THE COMPASS.

SPIRITS FREE OF DUTY (1911) - man poses as ghost to scare farmer.

SPIRITUALISM EXPOSED (1913) - directed by Charles Raymond.

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SPOOKED (1995) - "dark tale of a man alone facing his inner demons" - short directed by Mark Stirton, later helmer of the 2006 feature THE PLANET.

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SPOOKIES (1987)  - partygoers find themselves in a house full of monsters and strange creatures. Shot in New York, this U.S. production is listed as a British film in several sources. Apparently began life as a British production to have been entitled TWISTED SOULS; may have been funded by Mike Lee, head of the Vipco video label.

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SREDNI VASHTAR (1981)  - short, based on the Saki story. Young boy is persecuted by an aunt who kills his pet hen, is herself killed in the potting shed by the boy’s ferret. “Invocation to Sredni Vashtar is a shade too desperate, and the use of ‘Carmina Burana’ to conjure up a primaeval force does not quite match Saki’s tone” – Monthly Film Bulletin (September 1982)

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SREDNI VASHTAR (2003)  - another version of the Saki tale, 10-minute short directed by Angela M. Murray.

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STAGE FRIGHT (1997) - animated short from Aardman, set in a gloomy theatre. Scene with character being beckoned down to Hell by spectral demon.

THE STALKER'S APPRENTICE (1998) - feature-length single drama for ITV; James Bolam as unconvicted serial killer who lures a young proof-reader into his murderous ways.

STAR TRAP (1989) - feature-length production shot for ITV. Rival crime writers investigate a politician's murder. Devil-worship.

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STEPPENWOLF (1974)  - Max von Sydow in surreal adaptation of the Herman Hesse novel, as a man who thinks he is a werewolf. U.S./U.K./Swiss co-production.

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STEPTOE AND SON RIDE AGAIN (1973)  - second big-screen outing for the legendary Galton & Simpson characters; features a scene in which Wilfred Brambell appears to return from the dead at a funeral. “Lively, ghoulish climax”  - Monthly Film Bulletin (August 1973).

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STIFFY (2005?) - short film directed by Jacqueline Wright. "A necrophiliac love story".

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STOKER (2013)  - psychological thriller whose murderous Uncle Charlie owes a debt to Hitchcock's SHADOW OF A DOUBT. Directed by Park Chan-wook

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THE STONE TAPE (1972)  - classic 90-minute horror drama for BBC television, scripted by Nigel Kneale and directed by Peter Sasdy. Researchers developing a new recording medium find that the house they are working in is haunted, and that an apparition has been somehow imprinted into the very fabric of the property.

 

STONEHEARST ASYLUM (2014)  - Lunatics take over the asylum. Cast of major stars for this barely-released item from Brad Anderson, also known as ELIZA GRAVES. An American production shot in Bulgaria but with a busload of British big names and a 'British horror film' feel to it. 

A STORY OF TUTANKHAMUN (1973) - directed by Kevin Scott. Apparent curse befalls members of Egyptian expedition.

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STRAIGHTHEADS (2007)  - violent, rifle-toting rape-revenge saga starring the unlikely pairing of Gillian Anderson and Danny Dyer. Released as CLOSURE in the United States.

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THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE (1968)  - Dan Curtis produced this two-hour version of Stevenson’s horror classic, with Jack Palance in the title roles. U.S./Canadian production, shot in London and with many familiar British faces in the cast.

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STRANGEBREW (2003) - 20-minute short directed by Robert Wallace. Ref: Paul Higson - "has a man dumped on the moors by his wife, an encounter in a local pub and witchcraft".

STRANGER FROM VENUS (1954) - sf cheapie inspired by THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL.

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THE STRANGLER (1932)  - actor is strangled on stage during rehearsals for a murder play; the entire cast become suspects.

STRANGLER’S WEB (1965)  - 55-minute programmer filmed at Merton Park Studios, directed by John Llewellyn Moxey.

STREET OF CROCODILES (1986)  - short animation directed by The Brothers Quay. “Plagued with existential dread…hollow-headed dolls examine slices of glistening red meat or apply forensic attention to hairy spiders” – ‘The BFI Companion To Horror’.

A SUBSTANTIAL GHOST (1903) - (fake?) spook scares tramps in graveyard. Gaumont silent with a running time of just one minute!

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SUICIDE SNUFF (2008)  - failed filmmaker plans one last attempt to make it - by capturing his own death on camera. 13-minute short directed by Jason Impey.

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SUNSHINE (2007)  - Danny Boyle-directed science fiction about a mission to reignite the dying sun. Rather disappointingly falls back on 'murderer killing off the crew' tactics in its final scenes.

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